The 7th European Athletics Championships were held from 12–16 September 1962 in the JNA Stadium in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (present-day Serbia). Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald. Just before the meet, the IAAF council approved the use of glass fibre poles for pole vaulting. As a consequence, competitors were able to use them during the meet if they wished.

Medal summary

Complete results were published.

Men

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|||10.4

|||10.4

|||10.4

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|||20.7

|||20.8

|||20.8

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|||45.9

|||46.1

|||46.4

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|||1:50.5

|||1:51.2

|||1:51.2

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|||3:40.9

|||3:42.1

|||3:42.2

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|||14:00.6

|||14:01.8

|||14:02.6

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|||28:54.0

|||29:01.6

|||29:02.0

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|||13.8

|||14.0

|||14.2

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|||49.2 , WR

|||50.3

|||50.5

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|||8:32.6

|||8:37.6

|||8:40.6

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|<br>Klaus Ulonska<br>Peter Gamper<br>Hans-Joachim Bender<br>Manfred Germar||39.5

|<br>Jerzy Juskowiak<br>Andrzej Zieliński<br>Zbigniew Syka<br>Marian Foik||39.5

|<br>Alf Meakin<br>Ron Jones<br>Berwyn Jones<br>David Jones||39.8

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|<br>Wilfried Kindermann<br>Johannes Schmitt<br>Joachim Reske<br>Manfred Kinder||3:05.8

|<br>Barry Jackson<br>Ken Wilcock<br>Adrian Metcalfe<br>Robbie Brightwell||3:05.9

|<br>Bruno Galliker<br>Jean-Louis Descloux<br>Marius Theiler<br>Hans-Rüdi Bruder||3:07.0

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|||2:23:18.8

|||2:24:02.0

|||2:24:19.8

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|||1:35:54.8

|||1:36:14.2

|||1:36:37.6

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|||4:19:46.6

|||4:24:35.6

|||4:29:00.2

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|||2.21 m

|||2.13 m

|||2.09 m

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|||4.80 m

|||4.60 m

|||4.60 m

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|||8.19 m ()<br>(7.87 m )

|||7.85 m

|||7.85 m

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|||16.55 m

|||16.39 m

|||16.24 m

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|||19.02 m

|||18.38 m

|||18.26 m

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|||57.11 m

|||55.96 m

|||55.47 m

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|||82.04 m

|||77.92 m

|||77.66 m

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|||69.64 m

|||66.93 m

|||66.57 m

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|||8026 pts

|||8022 pts

|||7835 pts

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  • Igor Ter-Ovanesyan's championship record of 7.81 metres, set at the previous edition in 1958, was bettered by all the medalling athletes in 1962. Ter-Ovanesyan's winning jump of 8.19 metres was wind-assisted – although Finns Rainer Stenius and Pentti Eskola cleared 7.85&nbsp;m, Ter-Ovanesyan's non-wind-assisted jump of 7.82&nbsp;m in qualification round (13 September) and Ter-Ovanesyan's best non-wind-assisted jump of 7.87&nbsp;m in final (14 September) were ratified as the new championship marks.

Women

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|<br>(wind: +2.3&nbsp;m/s)

|||11.3

|||11.3

|||11.4

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|||23.5

|||23.7

|||23.9

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|||53.4

|||53.9

|||54.4

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|||2:02.8

|||2:05.0

|||2:05.0

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|<br>Teresa Ciepły<br>Barbara Sobotta<br>Elżbieta Szyroka<br>Maria Piątkowska||44.5

|<br>Erika Fisch<br>Martha Pensberger<br>Maren Collin<br>Jutta Heine||44.6

|<br>Ann Packer<br>Dorothy Hyman<br>Daphne Arden<br>Mary Rand||44.9

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|||10.6

|||10.6

|<br>||10.6

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|||1.83 m

|||1.76 m

|||1.73 m

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|||6.36 m

|||6.22 m

|||6.22 m

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|||18.55 m

|||17.17 m

|||16.95 m

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|||56.91 m

|||53.60 m

|||52.82 m

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|||54.93 m

|||52.10 m

|||51.80 m

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|||4833 pts

|||4735 pts

|||4676 pts

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  • The women's 100 metres silver medallist Jutta Heine bettered the championship record twice in qualifying, running 11.5, then 11.4 seconds. Both times were ratified as championship records. In the final Dorothy Hyman and Heine ran 11.3 but this was wind-assisted.

Medal table

Participation

According to an unofficial count, 668 athletes from 29 countries participated in the event, two athletes less than the official number of 670 as published. There was a joint German team comprising athletes from both East and West Germany. Assignment to their respective country was accomplished using the database of Deutsche Gesellschaft für Leichtathletik-Dokumentation 1990 e.V.

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References

;Results

  • European Athletics